Domain name validation

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I was revisiting the validation of domain names and realised that most of the regexes posted around the web have faults. Many refer to Sean Inman’s 2006 post, which does a fair job but is prone to break as new TLDs are introduced. This answer on StackOverflow is about the best I’ve found so far:… Read more »

Microsoft finally gets it

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I somehow missed Microsoft’s announcement that (in a complete U-turn from previous announcements) IE8 will support web standards mode by default, and thus any broken sites will have to enable IE7 mode by a meta tag. So finally, IE will cease to be the albatross around the neck of the internet, and developers the world… Read more »